For This Week I Thee Wed & 50 Clues He's Mr. Right by Cheryl St.John

Author:Cheryl St.John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Real men are punctual! Set your watches, girls. Your real man is a stickler for punctuality. When he says two o’clock, he means two o’clock—on the nose. Waiting for you can make him cranky. When he wants to see you, he wants to see you. This isn’t a hardship though. You’ll want to see a man like this too.

—from “Forty-Nine Things You Need

to Know about a Real Man,”

Real Men magazine, April 1949

EITHER CHASE MONTGOMERY didn’t want to see her, or he wouldn’t make the 1949 list of real men.

Tara checked the restaurant door for the tenth time, then settled back into her chair and frowned at her watch. The man was over half an hour late. Clearly, punctuality wasn’t a quality of today’s real men.

Not that she was expecting a whole lot from Chase Montgomery, but he was the most promising of the bunch. Besides, she’d spent the evening reading one of his books, and she had to admit that Stella was right. His heroes were pretty standard, but the sex scenes were outstanding. Besides, there was that photograph. Maybe he was a good example of today’s real man.

She just wished he could tell time.

She swiveled to check the door again. An elderly couple entered, followed by a confused-looking man in his early thirties, casually and inappropriately dressed in a dark jacket, a purple T-shirt with a sports motif on it and blue jeans. Tara focused on the couple as the maître d’ led them across the room, noting with a pang of envy the solicitous way the gentleman pulled out his companion’s chair and ensured she was comfortable before taking his own seat. Now, there was a real man. Too bad he was in his seventies.

She turned again to check out Mr. Purple Shirt, who was now engaged in a conversation with the maître d’. He was a perfect example of what was wrong with men these days. He wasn’t unattractive, if you liked the nerdy type, but those jeans could use a wash, and that shirt belonged in a garage sale, not a quality restaurant. She smiled as she watched the maître d’ shaking his head. Apparently he agreed with her. He looked like a polite, well-dressed man. Maybe that’s who she should be interviewing instead of this Chase Montgomery character.

Unfortunately, Charlene was unlikely to react positively to “Real Men Are Waiters.”

She frowned as the maître d’ turned and led the man into the room. So much for that theory. She had thought of another title though. “Real Men Don’t Back Down.” No, that was no good. If she wasn’t careful, this article would turn into a men-bashing exercise, which wasn’t what Charlene had in mind, either.

She turned back to her table, picked up her water glass, then set it down again. Mr. Purple Shirt had looked vaguely familiar. Surely he wasn’t...

She checked. Sure enough, the maître d’ was guiding him across the room, straight toward Tara’s table, his lean, elegant face creased into a frown. They came to a full stop beside her table.

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